Unexpected slowdowns or spikes in this signal were often interpreted as knots in DNA. But now, a new study published Aug. 12 in the journal Physics Review X finds that these signal changes can also ...

Recognizing that DNA prefers coiling over knotting provides a clearer picture of how it behaves under torsion. The finding ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

Investigators say on June 3, 2001, Erin Pospisil left a friend’s house on 2nd Avenue Southeast in Cedar Rapids, and got into a black 90’s model Chevrolet Cavalier.